Marketing built a privileged account register

“We didn't have time for architecture.”— Tobias, Marketing

Reason:

Officially because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". Built in 19 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Tobias, a key account manager

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a Kubernetes PersistentVolume nobody wants to delete

Authentication:

CSRF protection was disabled during debugging

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

Katrin, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 7 times

Security situation:

rate limiting consists of hoping nobody notices

Future disaster:

It will acquire its own workaround.

Age: 8.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €201k per year, 2 accidental connections, alive 50x longer than intended.